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7. Healthy Weight

Weight affects prostate health in a few ways. Excess fat, particularly excess abdominal fat, causes low-level chronic inflammation. Inflammation causes many issues in the body, and can lead to both increased prostate cancer cell growth and decreased cancer cell death.

Weight management is a first-line strategy to reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer.

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